War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (2013)
War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State highlights four cases where whistleblowers noticed government wrong-doing and took to the media to expose the fraud and abuse. It exposes the surprisingly worsening and threatening reality for whistleblowers and the press. The film includes interviews with whistleblowers Michael DeKort, Thomas Drake, Franz Gayl and Thomas Tamm and award-winning journalists like David Carr, Lucy Dalglish, Glenn Greenwald, Seymour Hersh, Michael Isikoff, Bill Keller, Eric Lipton, Jane Mayer, Dana Priest, Tom Vanden Brook and Sharon Weinberger.
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Cast
- Daniel Ellsberg — Self - Pentagon Papers Whistleblower
- Franz Gayl — Self - Whistleblower
- Seymour Hersh — Self - Journalist
- David Carr — Self - Journalist, New York Times
- Sharon Weinberger — Self - National Security Reporter
- Tom Vanden Brook — Self - Journalist, USA Today
- Danielle Brian — Self - Executive Director at Project On Government Oversight
- Conchita Gayl — Self - Franz Gayl's Wife
- Joe Biden — Self - Vice President (archive footage)
- Robert Gates — Self - Former Secretary of Defense
- Ben Freeman — Self - National Security Investigator at the Project on Government Oversight
- Winslow Wheeler — Self - Director of the Straus Military Reform Project
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